| Mildura | |
| State: | vic |
| Created: | 1927 |
| Mp: | Jade Benham |
| Mp-Party: | National |
| Namesake: | Town of Mildura |
| Electors: | 44401 |
| Electors Year: | 2018 |
| Area: | 37529 |
| Class: | Rural |
| Near-N: | New South Wales |
| Near-Ne: | New South Wales |
| Near-Nw: | South Australia |
| Near-E: | Murray Plains |
| Near-W: | South Australia |
| Near-S: | Lowan |
| Near-Se: | Ripon |
| Near-Sw: | South Australia |
Mildura is an electoral district of the Legislative Assembly in the Australian state of Victoria and sits within the Northern Victoria electorate.[1] It is a 37,529 km2 rural electorate in the far-north-west of the state, encompassing the regional towns of Hopetoun, Mildura, Ouyen, Red Cliffs and Robinvale.
Mildura was first proclaimed in 1927 and was, for most of its history, a safe seat for the rural conservative Country Party, excluding two terms of Labor control from 1945 to 1947 and 1952–1955. In 1988, however, it became one of a number of rural seats to fall to the Liberal Party, with journalist Craig Bildstien winning the seat on Labor preferences. Bildstien held the seat for eight years before a surprise loss in 1996 to conservative independent Russell Savage. Savage was twice re-elected with large margins, but was a widely unexpected casualty of the 2006 election, losing his seat to the National Party's Peter Crisp in a landslide.
Crisp retained the seat in 2010 and 2014, only to be swept out in a shock defeat by Cupper, only the fourth time that the seat has not been held by a conservative party.
Towns within the district include: Birchip, Boundary Bend, Hopetoun, Irymple, Manangatang, Merbein, Mildura, Murrayville, Ouyen, Patchewollock, Piangil, Red Cliffs, Robinvale, Sea Lake, Walpeup, Woomelang and Wycheproof.
| Member | Party | Term | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albert Allnutt | Country Progressive | 1927–1930 | |||
| Country | 1930–1945 | ||||
| Independent | 1945 | ||||
| Louis Garlick | Labor | 1945–1947 | |||
| Nathaniel Barclay | Country | 1947–1952 | |||
| Alan Lind | Labor | 1952–1955 | |||
| Nathaniel Barclay | Country | 1955–1962 | |||
| Milton Whiting | Country | 1962–1975 | |||
| National Country | 1975–1982 | ||||
| National | 1982–1988 | ||||
| Craig Bildstien | Liberal | 1988–1996 | |||
| Russell Savage | Independent | 1996–2006 | |||
| Peter Crisp | National | 2006–2018 | |||
| Ali Cupper | Independent | 2018–2022 | |||
| Jade Benham | National | 2022–present |
See main article: Electoral results for the district of Mildura.